Quote Originally Posted by Ash View Post
Apart from getting home. Did you have those red number-plates that would be shown when hitching to prove you weren't an axe-wielding homicidal maniac? I used to be quite jealous of those in my hitching days, I must admit, as I was about to give up any hope of extraction from a roundabout on the M6 near Rugby and settle down to a night under the stars.
Yes. Trade plates pretty much gauranteed a lift from a lorry within moments of holding them out. I once got a lift from Newport docks directly to my front door. Mind you, long distance lorry drivers can be a very, very odd bunch. A Dutch driver once had me absolutely convinced that he was kidnapping me to give me a good búggering, as he absolutely refused to stop to let me out, until, for no reason at all, he pulled up on the A120 and demanded I leave. Middle of fúcking nowhere, it was.